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BALING-PRESS.

i Specification of Letters Patent.

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Application filed January 7, 1916. Serial No. 70,736.Y

To all whom t may concern Be it known that I, CYRUs PRESTON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Kelsey, in the county of Upshur and State of Texas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ealing-Presses, of which the following is a specification.

My invention has relation to a press for baling hay or the like, and in such connection it relates more particularly to the construction and arrangement of the means for compressing the material in the packing box or hopper as well as the construction and arrangement of means for conveying the material when compressed from the press 1n the form of bales separated from each other and held under pressure in the trough leading from the press.

In the carrying out of my invention there is provided a plunger reciprocating in a packing box or hopper, a lever adapted to be operated by hand, horse or other power, said lever pivoted at its base to the plunger and connected intermediate of its ends, by a bail, to the base of the structure, there being springs arranged to return the plunger and to return the lever to their normal inoperative position. There is also provided a novel means for keeping the baled material under pressure as it travels through the trough connected with the press.

The nature and scope of my invention will be more fully understood from the following description taken in connection with the accompanying drawings forming part hereof, in which,

Figure 1 is a side elevational view of a baling press embodying the main feature of my invention;

Fig. 2 is a top or plan view thereof;

Fig. 3 is a longitudinal sectional view of press and discharge trough;

Fig. l is a vertical sectional view taken on line 4-4 of Fig. 3, and

Fig. 5 is a vertical sectional view taken on line 5 5 of Fig. y3.

Referring to the drawings, 1 represents Y the packing box or hopper and 2 theplunger arranged to reciprocate therein. In the preferred form of construction the side walls of the packing box 1 are slotted as at 3 and the sides ofthe plunger 2 are provided with rollers 4 working in said slots 3.

The movement inward of the plunger 2 is secured by means of a hand or power lever 5, pivoted at its lower end as at 6 to the front face of the plunger 2 and connected by a bail 7 to the platform 8 supporting the press. Rods 9, rigidly connected at one end to the front face of the plunger 2 and arranged at their other end to slide in grooves 10 of platform 8, serve to guide and sup-port the plunger 2 during its reciprocation. A spring 11 connects the lever 5 with the top of the plunger 2 and a spring 12 connects the front face of the plunger 2 with platform 8 at a point in front of said plunger. p

A cord or chain 18 connected with the top of lever 5 and passing under a pulley 14E supported by platform 8 serves as a means for applying horse or other power to the lever 5 to depress the same. The springs 11 and 12 supply the power to return lever 5- and plunger 2 to their normal, inoperative position.

The rear end of packing box 1 communicates with a trough 15, open at the sides, and into which the compressed material is forced and afterward baled. The top- 16 of this trough is arranged to raise and lower away from or toward the base of the trough, being for this purpose hinged as at 17 at its forward end to the packing box 1 and provided at its rear end with a compressing lever 18 of suitable construction and arrangement.

When suflicient material has been compressed in the packing box a board 19Vis. inserted and the compressed material moved into the trough where, as it accumulates, it is bound into bales of required size by wires or cords and each bale is separated from the adjacent bale by a board 19a.

I-Iaving thus described the nature and objects of my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In 'a baling press, a packing box, a

plunger reciprocating therein, a lever adapted to reciprocate said plunger, said lever pivoted at its lower end to the front face of said plunger, a bail connecting said lever intermediate of its ends with the Vsupport for the press, and a spring connecting thelever intermediate of its ends with the top edge of the plunger.

' 2. In a baling press, a packing box having slotted sides, a plunger, rollers carried by the sides of the plunger and working in theI slotted sides of said packing box, rods rigidly connected at one end to the plunger, a slotted support for said press, the other end of said rods working in Said slotted support, In testimony whereof I have signed my Y and a spring connecting sind plunger with neme to J5111s speelcation in the presence ei' 10 said support, Combined with a lever plvottwo subscribing Witnesses. n Y

ally connected at one end to said plunger, s i Y a bail Connecting the lever intermediate of f CYRUS PREBTON' its ends with the support and a spring con- Witnesses:

necting the lever intermediate ofV its ends LfGri MARTIN,

with the top edge of the plunger. W. A.V MARSHALL.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. C. Y i 

